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Add indicative QP for ASP and AVC codecs

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<sect3 id="menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4-resolution-bitrate-compute">
<title>Computing the resolution</title>
<para>
  First, you should compute the encoded aspect ratio:
  <systemitem>ARc = (Wc x (ARa / PRdvd )) / Hc</systemitem>
<itemizedlist>
<title>where:</title>
<listitem><para>

  there is a limited total number of bits that you can spend; therefore it is
  necessary to find a good tradeoff between compressibility and quality.
</para>

<para>
  The CQ depends both on the bitrate and the movie resolution.
  In order to raise the CQ, typically you would downscale the movie given that the
  bitrate is computed in function of the target size and the length of the
  movie, which are constant.
  A CQ below 0.18 usually ends up in a very blocky picture, because there
  are not enough bits to code the information of each macroblock (MPEG4, like
  many other codecs, groups pixels by blocks of several pixels to compress the
  image; if there are not enough bits, the edges of those blocks are
  visible).
  It is therefore wise to take a CQ ranging from 0.20 to 0.22 for a 1 CD rip,
  and 0.26-0.28 for 2 CDs.
</para>

<para>
  Please take note that the CQ is just an indicative figure, as depending on
  the encoded content, a CQ of 0.18 may look just fine for a Bergman, contrary
  to a movie such as The Matrix, which contains many high-motion scenes.
  On the other hand, it is worthless to raise CQ higher than 0.30 as you would
  be wasting bits without any noticeable quality gain.
</para>
</sect3>

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<sect3 id="menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4-resolution-bitrate-compute">
<title>Computing the resolution</title>
<para>
  The following steps will guide you to compute the resolution of your
  encode without taking too much distortion by taking into account several
  information about the souce video.
  First, you should compute the encoded aspect ratio:
  <systemitem>ARc = (Wc x (ARa / PRdvd )) / Hc</systemitem>
<itemizedlist>
<title>where:</title>
<listitem><para>

  there is a limited total number of bits that you can spend; therefore it is
  necessary to find a good tradeoff between compressibility and quality.
</para>

<para>
  The CQ depends both on the bitrate, the video codec efficiency and the
  movie resolution.
  In order to raise the CQ, typically you would downscale the movie given that the
  bitrate is computed in function of the target size and the length of the
  movie, which are constant.
  With MPEG-4 ASP codecs such as <systemitem class="library">XviD</systemitem>
  and <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem>, a CQ below 0.18
  usually ends up in a pretty blocky picture, because there
  are not enough bits to code the information of each macroblock (MPEG4, like
  many other codecs, groups pixels by blocks of several pixels to compress the
  image; if there are not enough bits, the edges of those blocks are
  visible).
  It is therefore wise to take a CQ ranging from 0.20 to 0.22 for a 1 CD rip,
  and 0.26-0.28 for 2 CDs with standard encoding options.
  More advanced encoding options such as those listed here for
  <link linkend="menc-feat-mpeg4-lavc-example-settings"><systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem></link>
  and
<link linkend="menc-feat-xvid-example-settings"><systemitem class="library">XviD</systemitem></link>
  should make it possible to get the same quality with CQ ranging from
  0.18 to 0.20 for 1 CD rip, and 0.24-0.26 for 2 CDs
  With MPEG-4 ASP codecs such as <systemitem class="library">x264</systemitem>,
  you can use a CQ ranging from 0.14 to 0.16 with standard encoding options,
  and should be able to go as low as 0.10 to 0.12 with
  <link linkend="menc-feat-x264-example-settings"><systemitem class="library">x264</systemitem>'s advanced encoding settings</link>.
</para>

<para>
  Please take note that the CQ is just an indicative figure, as depending on
  the encoded content, a CQ of 0.18 may look just fine for a Bergman, contrary
  to a movie such as The Matrix, which contains many high-motion scenes.
  On the other hand, it is worthless to raise CQ higher than 0.30 as you would
  be wasting bits without any noticeable quality gain.
  Also note that as said earlier on this quide, low resolution comparatively
  need a bigger QP to look good.
</para>
</sect3>

</sect2>